Just wanted to give a heads up on the progress thus far. EPEL8 expects to have modules by early December. That's a couple months away, but still this year. For non-KDE packages[1], I have started moving those over to regular EPEL8. The normal maintainers are taking their packages, and for those that don't want to be EPEL maintainers, I am taking the package. This should not affect much, except for two things. First - system-switch-displaymanager is going away. It is python2 based, and in the end, it's whole functionality can be run in one simple systemctl command. Second - There are a couple of packages that the Fedora maintainers would rather not be in Fedora at all, let alone EPEL8. Example is xorg-x11-drv-synaptics. I will be reaching out to the specific package maintainers to see if we can/should update these. Here is the (minorly) updated "How to install KDE on RHEL8/CentOS8" ## How to install ### First: install epel-release rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm ### Second: Enable epel-playground dnf config-manager --enable epel-playground ### Third: Enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8 #### If RHEL 8 do subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms #### If CentOS 8 do dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools ### Fourth: install KDE dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" (Optional) dnf group install kde-desktop (Optional) dnf group install kde-apps (Optional) dnf group install kde-media --skip-broken (Optional) dnf group install kde-education (Optional) dnf group install kde-software-development (Optional) dnf group install kf5-software-development ### (Optional) Fifth: Set sddm as desktop manager systemctl set-default graphical.target (Not-Optional if in multi-user.target) (optional) dnf install sddm (optional) systemctl enable sddm -f Troy [1] - Here is the list of non-KDE packages needed to build and/or run KDE. Those marked DONE are already in regular EPEL 8. advancecomp astyle cln desktop-backgrounds discount dustin-domestic-manners-fonts dustin-dustismo-fonts fdupes gpsd imlib2 - DONE jsoncpp libaccounts-glib libbsd - DONE libdmtx libfakekey libid3tag - DONE libpgf libqalculate libupnp - DONE lmdb - DONE nss-mdns openbox optipng perl-Any-URI-Escape pngcrush - DONE proj - DONE re2 - DONE rubygem-hpricot rubygem-mustache rubygem-rake-compiler rubygem-rdiscount rubygem-ronn scim shapelib sj-fonts switchdesk system-switch-displaymanager - REMOVED tidy tofrodos upower - In RHEL8 - REMOVED xapian-core xcb-util-cursor xorg-x11-drv-synaptics _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
